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A30031	New Rome arraigned And out of her own mouth condemned. Containing a farther discovery of the dangerous errors, and pernicious principles of the leaders and teachers of the Foxonian Quakers: which tend to overthrow the Christian faith, to obstruct the Jews conversion, to encourage Mahumetism, and to pervert the right way of the Lord; which whether so or no, deserves the examination and consideration of the Christian ministry of all Protestant Churches, as they tender God's glory, and the good of souls. To which is added, Ten articles of the Christian faith, wrote by Geo. Keith, who was persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian testimony. The second edition, with some alteration and additions, by Francis Bugg. Licensed, June 18th. 1694.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. aut	1693 (1693)	Wing B5377; ESTC R202485	69,734	77

the whole World Thus have you made the Apostles false Witnesses who have charged the Jews with slaying the Lord of Life and Glory As to the Sufferings of Christ the Question still remains unanswered I know you now see cause to say his Sufferings were grievous Sufferings sweating drops of Blood yea great Sufferings Thus far G. W. is got but George you know there is degrees of Greatness there is magnus major maximus great greater and greatest of all Now the great Query is Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest Ed. Burroughs says the Sufferings of the Quakers was greatest And G. W. hath not yet said the Sufferings of Christ was greatest no other word will do I still pursue the Terms of my Query and wait to have it answered but I find G. W. pinched and in a great strait and knows not which way to wind him Condemn Ed. Burroughs's Expression as a Lye that he cannot do for a World for he was by G. W. counted a Prophet a Son of Thunder one in whom was the Almighty Power of God Can such a man lye Can he err No they cannot give Evidence against themselves so not fit to be of a Jury not fit for any place of Trust in Government not fit to have yea and nay pass for an Oath If so then if the Jury be most Quakers they 'l never give it against themselves they are not impartial they cannot be impartial they are the greatest respecters of Persons this day on Earth E. B. has said The Sufferings of the Quakers is greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles which is horrid blasphemous yea they thereby undervalue the Sufferings of the Lord of Glory and exalt their own as greater Sufferings This they cannot deny nor this they cannot condemn see the Fruit of Infallibility having once spoken whether true or false a Lye or a true Story both must be infallible they cannot retract they cannot confess their Sins to God how then should they retract and acknowledge their Errors No not for a World then down goes Infallibility the principal Studd of their new kind of Popery The Perfect Quaker in favour of their own Books An Epistle from their Yearly Meeting 1675. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Several Petitions answer'd c. p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Papers and Queries for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God Several Papers given out for the spreading of Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord this is the Word of God G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. Anno 1693. Dear Friends it 's advised that you be careful in spreading all such Books writ in defence and for the Service of Truth Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for remembrance and notice B. B. The Perfect Quaker's Perfect Contempt of Scripture Saul's Errand c. p. 7. The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. A brief Discovery c. p. 7. The Priests of the World are Conjurers raising dead Doctrines dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death Notable Conjurers P. 8. The Commission of Baal's Priests came from Oxford and Cambridge the same poisonous Fountain is filthy the Streams are no better Simon Magus would have purchased the Holy Ghost with Money even the Sir Simons of our Age run to Oxford and Cambridge Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death really they are Bloodhounds still hunting and gaping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Ja. Naylor's Answ to the Jews p. 4 22 25. It 's Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God it is the Devil which contends for the Letter to be the Word of God The Quaker's Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scripture was Moses or Hermes or whether both these two or not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false c. News coming up c. p. 14. Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Counterfeit Quaker facing round about Quaker's Vindication p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God c. Count. Conv. c. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World A treble Observation upon a triple Quaker Courteous Readers whether Christians or Jews what think you Is the Counterfeit Quaker sincere Do you believe that he means what he says namely that the Scripturesare of Divine Authority and that he prefers them before all the Books extant in the World If so you may believe Transubstantiation Can you think I say that he believes the Scripture is of Divine Authority when he tells you that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust and Serpents-mear and that the Scripture is Beastly Ware that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ or whether either or neither and that what was spoke by good and wise Men was ill applied and ill expressed and what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true c Answer me for my part I cannot G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of

one and that too much too Secondly Do you think he values and prefers the Scriptures before all Books extant in the World I think not my Reasons are many First you hear he calls the Scriptures Dust Death and Serpents-meat Beastly Wares dangerous to read see Truths Defence c. p. 101. yea so uncertain that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Pen-man of Holy Writ is a question But as for what G. Fox c. wrote their Yearly Meeting testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea the same Men that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents-meat judge Reader which they prefer Yea G. W. avouches that what is spoke from the Spirit of Truth in any much more in them is of equal nay of greater Authority than the Scriptures judge Reader which they prefer They say 't is Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and that 't is the Devil that so pleads Yet they say of their own Epistles This is the Word of God judge which they preferr They say we may as well burn the Bible as their Papers and Queries judge which they prefer Come G. W. what Gloss have you in store your Paint begins to vanish and your Jugglings will not now do And as to you that are mis-led by your Teachers I exhort you to read the Scriptures and pray to God to open the Mysteries of Salvation held forth in them that so you may come to have your Judgments rectified Likewise read G. K's Ten Articles which came providentially to my Hand which being sound and orthodox I have exposed them to publick view for general Service desiring from my Heart that you may receive them in the same love they were writ and now exposed yet if you will not hear me nor receive them I of all Men may bear with you in that I once was as averse to Information as the most of you but I obtained Mercy in that I did not wilfully persist against Conviction c. Some of the Principles of G. Keith and his Friends 1. That Bodily Sickness and Death came in by the Fall 2. That Christ has now in Heaven a Soul and a Body that is not the Godhead but the Temple of it and most gloriously united therewith 3. That Christ's Body that was crucified and buried without us rose again without us and is now in Heaven without us 4. That the Man Christ Jesus will come again in that Body without us to judge the Quick and the Dead 5. That there shall be a general day of Judgment that all the deceased Saints are in expectation of 6. That we get not the Resurrection of the Body either in this mortal Life or immediately after Death 7. That Faith in the Man Christ without us as he died for us rose again and is gone into Heaven wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ is universally necessary to make Men true Christians and Children of God born of the Free Woman who have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father 8. That Christ's Obedience and Righteousness which he performed in himself without us is imputed to us by Faith for the Remission of Sins 9. That Christ is not only God's Elect but all that shall be saved from the beginning to the end of the World are God's Elect being chosen in him not only before they believe and repent but before the Foundation of the World 10. That all and every one of the Members of the Church of Christ who are at age and can speak ought to confess with their Mouths in the hearing of some of their Fellow Members the Fundamental Principles of their Christian Faith before they can be own'd to be Members of the Church that by the same as well as by a Good Life and Conversation it may be known who are qualified to be Members of our Church which is Aboundary Terms and Bond of our Union the Spirit being the Principal which may be easily done by Answering to some plain Questions This is a Copy of G. Keith's c. sound and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith proposed to the Quakers of whom I wish it may not be said Oh how oft would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but you would not but now the things which belong to your Peace are hid from your Eyes I remember G. W. queried of me Count. Conv. p. 15. Whether I when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation Answ I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism as by my Book de Chr. Lib. c. which he so often quotes to justifie the Quakers from what I now charge them with may be seen yet I do freely acknowledge that I was in great Errors particularly touching the Point of Justification for I then expected Salvation thro' my Obedience to the Light which the Quakers taught was sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation it attained through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts Again G. W. says Count. Conv. p. 29. Not reading the Scriptures in our Meetings for Worship is no Proof that we have not a Spiritual Worship nor Evidence that we disbelieve the Doctrines contained in them Answ I do not give it as the only Evidence but as a Demonstration yet if you did in good earnest believe the Doctrines and Precepts of Christ in the Gospel to be blessed and holy as you pretend you would read the Scripture and prefer the Bible before any other Book extant in the World you would read the Scriptures in your Meetings if any Book at all and if you recommend any Book to your Friends beyond Sea it would be the Scripture But since you do neither but instead thereof read and recommend your own Epistles and that as you say for the spreading of Truth this is a Demonstration that you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy and an infallible Evidence that you prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures unless you be arrant Cheats indeed to read and recommend that which you know is worst and hide and keep from them that which is best which I can hardly think And as impertinent as G. W. renders my Ten Reasons I find him not able to confute them As for his Pretence to Pray after the manner Christ taught his Disciples I deny it for it you kept to the manner though not to the form you would not be alone But let the Reader observe all the Prayers of Steph. Crisp R. Ashby W. Bingly and others printed at the end of their Sermons nay all your Books extant in the World and he will not find this passage Forgive us our Sins as we forgive them that

trespass against us No nor yet after that manner for though you must needs know that you are Sinners as well as others and have transgressed the Laws of God in both Tables yet you can neither make Confession of Sin to God nor beg Pardon for Christ's sake which not only shew that you do not Pray after the Manner but that you do not pray in the Name of Christ to God the Father as the Mediator and Intercessor between GOD and Man which is an infallible Proof that as you therein differ from the Faith and Practice of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs yea all Protestant Churches to this day so you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy which teach Men so to do which is one Reason Secondly In that you warn charge and command your Disciples to read and cause to be read in your Meetings not only in England but beyond Sea your own Papers Epistles and Books whilst you not only lay aside the Scripture as useless but declare to all the World they are Death Dust and Serpents-meat Beastly Ware and that such as preach out of it are Conjurers Notable Conjurers Thirdly Because you say it's Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and yet allow your own Books that Title giving forth That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater questioning whether Moses be the first Pen-man thereof Fourthly A fourth Reason is because you deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper which the Scriptures teach saying Go teach all Nations baptising c. this do in remembrance of me c. Which the Apostles Primitive Christians and Martyrs practised who had the Spirit as much as you and witnessed Christ's second Coming as much as you Fifthly Your laying aside the use of the Lord's Prayer both in Manner and Form as aforesaid Sixthly Your laying aside the use of the Ten Commandments Seventhly And the Apostle's Creed Eighthly If you question whether Moses was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ and what the Prophets spake true or false you I say cannot believe what you question Ninthly You teach that such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers but the Scripture tells you That Christ is risen and sits in Glory at the Right Hand of God in Heaven above And Tenthly Because you rob Christ of his Divine Attributes and put them upon your glorified George Fox calling him the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness c. See your Epistle This is only to go amongst Friends largely recited in this Introduction p. 5 6. which notwithstanding G. W's Denial is plainly proved to mean G. Fox yet to strengthen the said Proof see J. Whitehead's small Treat p. 4 5. After these things in the year 1648. God who had compassion on his People did cause a Branch to spring forth of the Root of David which was filled with Virtue for the Covenant of Life and Peace was with him and he spread and shot forth many Branches which did partake of the fatness of the Root and the weary came to rest under his Branches In him also was the word of Reconciliation which turned the Hearts of the Children and the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just And in the year 1655. I being a Branch of this Tree meaning G. Fox the life of its Root caused me to blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit of the Lord came upon me c. I say G. F's saying that he rise out of the North was prophesied of c. and the recited Epistle saying O thou North of England who art reckoned barren c. and J. Whitehead setting the date of the rising of this Branch and Star 1648. and that in 1655. he also becoming a Branch of this Tree 't is manifest that what I said in New Rome unm c. p 79 to 87. was not without warrantable ground as by the coherence of their Doctrine doth manifestly appear And since your Books thus interfere let us prove whether they be sincere or which shall we take to be their Judgment in good earnest Answ That they are not sincere I have already given ten Reasons but that I may renew your memory I will add one more viz. In all their Meetings for Worship of GOD they never read one Chapter of the Bible nor one of the Epistles of the Apostles for this thirty years but 't is frequent with them to read their own Epistles as herein I shall further shew only one instance for the present I may recite to confirm you in the truth of their practice and by which you may measure great part of their pretences viz. Several Papers given forth for the spreading the Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the LORD take heed of judging one another To you all this is the Word of the LORD to spread over all I charge you in the presence of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst ALL FRIENDS AND BRETHREN EVERY WHERE to be read IN ALL MEETINGS This is THE WORD OF GOD. G. Fox 1. Pray observe first the design of sending their Books up and down it is TO SPREAD TRUTH and this might be done as well by recommending the reading of the Scriptures or some Portion thereof if indeed they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained therein be holy and blessed unless they will say their Books have a greater measure of holiness then the Scriptures which in the best sence they must believe unless they cheat the World most abominably to send them that which they know to be worse or least for their profiting Secondly You may observe what a Charge is given viz. I charge you in the PRESENCE of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst all Friends what to do namely for a Publick Liturgy or Form of Divine Service viz. To be read in ALL MEETINGS Well what Authority had G. F. to impose this upon the poor People namely This is THE WORD OF GOD. Now if they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained in the Bible to be holy and blessed why do they not charge their People to read some part of the Scriptures for their Instruction but alas they have disputed against the Scripture being the Word of GOD but now you see they stile their own Nonsence to be THE WORD OF GOD and charge their poor ignorant People as such to receive it and as such to read it and as such to send it up and down into all the Countries and all Places and who dare gainsay the mighty Power of G. Fox Who as Ios Coal says hath his habitation in the power of the Highest who rules and governs in righteousness and his Kingdom is established in peace and the increase thereof is

Life called Christ where-ever it is found Doth not the Name Christ belong to the whole Body and every Member in the Body as well as to the Head Will. Bayly's Works in Quarto p. 306 307 308. For they his Disciples loved his Person for the sake of the Frame and Quality of the Spirit that dwelt in him or else what was his Person to them being mean and contemptible more than another Person But for that which dwelt in him they loved him Let none mistake I do not slight it nor the Person of any of his Brethren or Children as they are prepared to do the Will of their Father The Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. Your Imagined God beyond the Stars is utterly denied and testified against by the Light And whereas you say in the 8th That this Christ the Man of God is God and Man in one Person it is a Lye c. G. Fox's Mystery c. p. 206 207 250 254. If Christ that 's crucified be not within and that Christ that 's risen be not within I say that you are all Reprobates Now I say if there be any other Christ than he that 's crucified within he is a False Christ and he that hath not this Christ that was risen and crucified within is a Reprobate Though Devils and Reprobates make a talk of him without God's Christ is not distinct from his Saints nor his Body the Church for he is within them not distinct from their Spirit And thou say'st thou art saved by Christ without thee and so have recorded thy self to be a Reprobate And they that profess Christ without them and another Christ within them here is two Christs E. Burrough's Works c. p. 149. Query Is that very Man with that very Body within you yea or nay E. B's Answ The very Christ of God is within us we dare not deny him W. Smith's Primmer c. p. 8. Que. How may I know when Christ is truly preached W. Smith's Answ They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above but they that are Christ's Ministers preach Christ within The Christian Quaker and his Div. Test par 1. p. 97 98. The Serpent is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something which is spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then could he not bruise the Serpents Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an holy Principle of Light and Life that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpents Head and because the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ as testifie the Scriptures the Seed is one and that Seed is Christ The Sandy Foundation c. p. 21. The Justice offended being Infinite his Satisfaction ought to bear a proportion therewith which Jesus Christ as Man could never pay he being Finite and from a finite Cause could never proceed an infinite Effect for so Man may be said to bring forth God since nothing below the Divinity it self can rightly be stiled infinite E. B's Works c. p. 273. And this is to go abroad into the Nation and into the World the Sufferings of the People of God called Quakers in this Age is greater Sufferings and more unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles or in any times since The Counterfeit Quaker The Harmony c. p. 11. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Innoc. Triumphant Introd We sincerely own profess and confess Jesus to be the Christ The Harmony c. p. 45. Jesus in his Agony did sweat as it were great drops of Blood c. smote on the Head spitted on his Face crucified between two Malefactors Observation If the Counterfeit Quaker were sincere in this his Confession and as a Testimony thereof would retract his Errors I should be glad but whilst G. W. says in his Count. Conv. c. p. 72. I may see cause otherwise to word the matter and yet our Intentions be the same And The Harmony c. considering these Imputations viz of denying Christ undervaluing his Death and Sufferings contempt of Scripture c. if by any means this may help to clear up Truth and wipe off those Aspersions cast upon it It will not do they begin at the wrong end 't is not appearing in Sheeps Clothing only that will now do G. W's Paint will not serve nor all his cunning Glosses for as Irenaeus in his third Book against Hereticks very well says viz. Whilst Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poison of their foul Opinions And as St. Paul says No marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their work c. 2 Cor. 11. 14. And that it may appear G. W. c. transform themselves into every shape behold their Books see how they contradict each other yet they 'll justifie or excuse all condemn none I have not taken a Passage or two only but I have traced them in their most approved Authors You see they call him that was born of the Virgin a Vessel a Garment and say they can never call him Christ and that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to every Member in the Body as well as to Christ the Head That his Disciples loved his Person for the sake of the Spirit which dwelt in him or else what was his Person to them more than another Person O horrible Contempt yea such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers Devils and Reprobates which make a talk of Christ without God's Christ is not distinct from the Saints says G. F. yea the same Christ that was crucified and rose again is within them and not distinct from them G. Fox and W. Penn say the Seed the Light is Christ which cannot be that Body because not in any Man In short they have acquitted the Jews and discharged Judas and freed Pontius Pilate of the horrible Crime of putting to death the Lord of Life and Glory what they can for as he was God he could not dye neither could they spit upon him scourge him hang him on a Tree but him that they call a Vessel a Garment a Man a Person him they slew and hanged on a Tree Acts 2. 36. Know assuredly that the same Jesus whom ye crucified and hanged on a tree hath God made both Lord and Christ Then not finite but a sufficient satisfactory Sacrifice for the Sins of

Observation So then I read out of G. Fox his Book what followeth the Astonishing Confutation abovesaid News coming up out of the North c. p. 14. So Dust is the Serpents meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death their Church is Dust and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter S. Cater I deny that we call the Scriptures Dust or Serpents-meat F. B. But S. Cater wilt thou deny it if you see it in one of your Friends Books S. Cater Yea wherever I see it I will deny it F. B. Richard Tilson go and fetch my Box which he did I read it as in the recited Charge and Sam. Cater took the Book and read it S. Cater Thou saidst we call'd the Scriptures Dust and Death but there is not the word Scripture in the whole Passage F. B. People I appeal to you whether Matthew Mark Luke and John be not Scripture With that perceiving S. Cater's Evasion the People gave a great shout and said Yes Yes S. Cater Matthew Muck F. B. Hold Sam. what Matthew muck what Muck is that what shall we have a new Gospel John Cade a Norwich Preacher said Friends take notice that as the Bible grows old it will moulder and crumble away and become Dust F. B. People observe They would not have you think that new Bibles are Dust but when they grow old they moulder away c. and therefore my Advice to you is to get new Bibles W. Read Francis we deny thy words we have given it in to the King and Parliament that we believe the Scriptures was given forth by Divine Inspiration and they have accepted of it F. Bugg The more shame for you to be so deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your Belief For if so why do you not Retract and Condemn your Books which are as opposite to what you now say as Light is to Darkness And some few Passages more we had But if they believe as they write that the Gospel Matthew Mark Luke and John be Dust I wonder with what face they could appear before the Parliament until they had first retracted and by some publick Act have condemned their Books which throw such Contempt upon the Holy Scripture For a further proof of this Charge see the sixteen Instances Object But possibly some may object and say It 's true you have more then sufficiently proved your first Charge and in the proof thereof there is enough said of their speaking contemptuously of the Holy Scriptures by calling them Dust Death Serpents-meat Carnal Letter killing Letter Dangerous to read c. yea and their contemptuous Speeches of the Sacraments Church Ministery c. yet the second Branch of your second Charge seems unproved where you bring it as an Argument against them of their not owning the Scriptures and that they over-value their own Writings Now if you have any thing material to offer pray do Answ I am very willing as I always was to leave things as clear as I can and place my Argument upon Matter of Fact out of their own printed Books And having already signified that ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES are out of their Books and their rejecting the Scriptures and reading the Scriptures in their Religious Meetings if I may so call them being a Consequent of the second Errour I shall so call them viz. both the Titles of their Epistles and the Conclusion enough to signalize their way and manner and THE DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE Quakers ERROURS First THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS c. Directed To the Camp of the Lord in England meaning the Quakers Subscribed Edw. Burrough and Fra. Howgill Second To the Flock of Christ every where to be read in their Assemblies by G. Fox Printed for Ben. Clark 1681. Third To the Children of Light c. Directed thus I desire this Epistle may be read in the fear of the Lord in your several Meetings By William Penn. Fourth A Salutation of Love from the Spirit of Life unto all Friends of Truth c. Let this be read amongst Friends who are Exiled or sentenced for Exilement when they are met together in the fear of the Lord. Josiah Coale Printed 1665. Fifth An Epistle to Friends in Holland Let this be sent amongst the Friends in Holland Jos Coal Printed 1667. Sixth To the Flock of GOD gathered out of the World in the Province of Mariland Let the Copies of this Epistle be sent amongst Friends every where in the Province of Mariland to be read amongst them in all their Assemblies in the fear of the Lord. Jos Coal Seventh Several Papers given forth for the spreading of Truth c. I charge you in the presence of the Lord God to send this amongst all Friends and Brethren EVERY WHERE to be read in all Meetings To you all this is THE WORD OF GOD G. Fox REMARK Thus Reader I have given a few Instances of their way and manner of sending their Epistles to be read in their Meetings both in England Holland and Mariland and were it needful I could give you a hundred more which shews that they give their own Writings the preferrence as well as that they lay aside the use of the Scriptures in their Meetings and no marvel if the Scriptures be Death Dust Carnal Serpents meat and if it be Conjuration to preach out of them and if the Ministers of the Scriptures be Ministers of Death and if it be dangerous to read them as were they as by the Quakers esteemed Dust Death Serpents-meat it were surely dangerous to read them for who would feed upon Dust and Death and Serpents-meat this could no way nourish nor strengthen but corrupt poison and putrifie the Minds of such as are most exercised in reading them and that so it is in their Judgment For if it were wholesome to read them and that they believed them to be given forth by Divine Inspiration as they to the Parliament have pretended to serve a Turn why do they not read the Scriptures or sometimes a Chapter or sometimes one of the Apostles Epistles in their Meetings as that they do not nor never did nay I challenge all the Quakers in England whether ever their Ministers recommended so much as one Chapter to be read in any of their Meetings for Worship these forty years much less charged them in the presence of the LORD GOD to read such a Chapter or such an Epistle as wrote either by the Prophets or Apostles And if they cannot let it be a Sign for ever that they deny the Scriptures first by contempt thrown on them and next by their practice of laying them aside and reading their own Epistles and let it rest upon Record as a witness against their deep Hypocrisies and let it be a Testimony against the false Pretences and Perjury of the twelve false Witnesses Nay and not only in their own Meetings but let me give you one

will you then if I shall them inlarge The Conolusion by way of Exhortation FRiends Let me exhort you to beware of the Doctrine of the Pharisees I mean of the Quakers which is Hypocrisie I have read of the Heresies of the Gnosticks Nicolaitans Donatists and others but none seem to me to be those Christ foretold of Matth. 24. 24. which should if it were possible deceive the very Elect so evidently as the Quakers for how have they prevailed how have they deceived high and low noble and ignoble and yet to me it seems easie to write a History of their rise growch and progress of their Church Government and that MONSTER Womens Meetings how when and by whom and by what Authority carried on and how the Spirit of Persecution hath been amongst them from the beginning sixty six in number of G. Fox's Party against sixty seven of John Stoy and John Wilkinson's Party Quakers against Quakers Councel against Councel until Geo. Keith one of their most Learned Preachers hath been constrained to testifie against their Errours charging them with Damuable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils yea even such as no Christian Society would tolerate And I knowing these things also cannot but warn all People to beware of their Glossings and deceiveable Paintings For they will direct you to the Light bid you be obedient to it tell you 't is sufficient to lead you to Salvation that its teaching is above Councels above Churches above Fathers and Scriptures but in all this they act but the part of a Juggler 't is only to decoy you over to them they do not so think that thus advise and counsel you for if you refuse Conformity to their Orders and Prescriptions alledging the Light to which they directed you doth not lead you thereunto pleading to be left to the Grace of GOD in thy self they that thus at first directed you to this Light will now tell you your Plea is Sordid Ranterism and pernitious to the Christian Religion See their Book stiled A brief Examination of Liberty Spiritual c. p. 3 11. For as it is false Doctrine to teach that the Light being obeyed is sufficient to lead to Salvation for then your Obedience is meritorious and Christ died in vain so do they not believe it sufficient by their rejecting your Plea wherefore be impartial in your search take the Apostles advice Prove all things search the Scriptures and hold fast that which is good A wise man saith Solomon will search out a matter And what is of more concern than the Christian Religion God of his mercy confound all Errours and manifest all Impostors and Deceivers and give the Victory to his Truth and Glory to his Name Amen Mildenhall Sept. 20. 1693. Fra. Bugg * i. e. The first Impression * A London Minister * A little like M. Fox the Story you may possibly have hereafter more at large * Aluding to Bethlehem read Micah 5. 2. Matt. 2. 5 6. * Which by Interpretation was all that professed Jesus of Nazareth and that called the Scriptures the Word of God c. † Here is not only great Miracles pretended but the Work of the Angels ‖ Here is excellent words for themselves yea compared to the Virgin Mary Luke 1. 28 48. * Quer. Why then should you be pitied or spared † Meaning both Gentry and Clergy and Church of England ‖ Quer. Why may not the little Whore have the Dregs of the like Cup * They understand the Plural Number † These were the Usurpers G. W. mention'd who defended the Ch. of Engl. against the Venom of Quakerism * Come G. W. do you think the False Prophets as you count the Clergy will help you no you may call and cry weep and wall but there is no Advocate among them for you until you condemn these your impudent Prophecies † If so why do you call and cry to them to stop me from discovering your Abominable Errors and shewing your Villanies * Thus Reader you see Christ denied which confirm all their foregoing Doctrine by which they deny Jesus of Nazareth to be the Christ of God for say they the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ † Christ's Sufferings and Satisfaction undervalued and made of no effect if he was Finite as W. P. says * See the Cage p. 50. * No take heed of that Judge all the World first and call them all the Names you can invent F. B's Charge against the Quakers F. B's first Charge The Quakers first Errour * Then not in them in the Quakers sence no no otherwise then by Faith nor no otherwise to this day for Christ said at His last Supper ME ye have not always its expedient that I go away but when I am gone I will send the Comforter The Quakers second Errour * viz. The Light in them or Christ that suffered on the Cross This is the Question observe his Answer Acts 13. 35. The Quakers third Errour Contrary to the express Testimony of holy Writ See Matth. 1. Luke 2. and 1 2 3 4 5 7 and 10th Chapter of the Acts c. * A Quest c. p. 22. * I inlarge the more on this Subject out of this Book by reason of the impudency of the Certificates handled by twelve Persons in G. W's Charitable Essay p. 8 O dreadful to deny what they know to be true is the most abominable thing that can be And this I charge upon them as a pack of false Witnesses and perjured Persons for their Solemn Protestation ought to be as binding as an Oath and the breach of it as punishable * Pray who do you account this Branch if not G. Fox for he came out of the North and as he said himself was prophesied of I say who else did you assign these Titles to i. e. the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness was it to G. Fox or the Light in him Pray distinguish in your next You are excellent at the Art of distinguishing for till then I can assign your Attributes to no other * Here was sad killing cutting and destroying not to spare Ox or Ass 'T is well they meant no other than what was within them as also all their Miracles are Mysteries Fancies Whimseys all within your Heaven Hell and Devils all within their Swords and whole Train of Artillery within * Though 't was not for printing sake but because such printing exposed their Antichristian Principles and great Divisions beyond the Seas * I do except G. Keith and his Friends as in New Rome unmasked p. 69 70 71. * G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 33 82 107. * De Praescr l. 1. c. 13. It is also called the Rule of Faith by Origen * Firebrand c. 2d part p. 87. G. F. J. B. Psal 51. 2 3 90. Job 7. 20. Lam. 3. 41 42. Isa 64 6. Dan. 9. 4. to the end 1 John 1. 8. 1 Tim. 1. 15. Rom. 7 Luke 11. 4. 1 King 8. 46. to 49. Psal 32. 5. Jer. 14. 20. Jam. 5. 16. Eccles 4. 26. Prov. 28. 13. Neh. 1. to the end Ezra 9.